VP, Associate Chief Medical Officer (5613)

**A Brief Overview** The Associate Chief Medical Officer serves as a senior physician executive and key deputy to the Chief Medical Officer, with a strong focus on clinical operations, performance improvement, physician advisory and clinical informatics. Leads cross-functional collaboration with operations, quality, finance, nursing, and service-line leadership to drive improvements in reliability, throughput, patient outcomes, and overall organizational performance within a high-acuity, mission-driven hospital setting. **What you will do** - Provides senior physician leadership for enterprise clinical operations, with oversight of ROH clinical operations and alignment of physician services with hospital performance goals. - Assists with operational improvement initiatives focused on hospital throughput, length of stay, discharge optimization, transfer efficiency, utilization management, and care transitions. - Oversees clinical informatics and AI strategy and execution, including EHR optimization, clinical decision support, data governance, and digital workflow transformation to improve quality, efficiency, and provider experience. - Partners with quality and safety leaders to drive measurable improvements in mortality, harm reduction, patient safety, patient experience, and regulatory readiness. - Collaborates with CDI, case management, revenue integrity, and finance to enhance documentation quality, reduce denials, and optimize resource utilization and financial performance. - Translates clinical data into actionable insights by leveraging analytics platforms, dashboards, and reporting tools to support real-time operational and strategic decision-making. - Supports development and execution of service line strategies and clinical programs, ensuring alignment with enterprise priorities and performance metrics. - Builds physician engagement through visible leadership, effective communication, informatics enablement, and performance-driven coaching. - Serves as a strategic advisor to executive leadership on clinical operations, informatics, digital transformation, and performance improvement initiatives. **Qualifications** - M.D. or D.O. from accredited school Required - Board certification in an ABMS- or AOA-recognized specialty. Upon Hire Required and - Licensed to practice medicine in the State of Tennessee. Upon Hire Required - Minimum 5 years experience Of progressive physician leadership experience, including experience in hospital operations, medical staff affairs, quality, or service-line leadership. Required and - Experience with improvement in quality, throughput, utilization, or physician engagement. Strong executive presence, conflict-management ability, and skill in leading across a matrixed environment. Required and - Experience in a large urban hospital, safety-net system, trauma center, or academic medical center. Preferred - Experience with care progression, physician advisory functions, utilization review, regulatory readiness, or denials management. Preferred - Experience supervising or coaching medical directors, department leaders, or physician committees. Preferred **Physical Demands** - Standing - Frequently - Walking - Frequently - Sitting - Frequently - Lifting - Rarely - Carrying - Rarely - Pushing - Rarely - Pulling - Rarely - Climbing - Rarely - Balancing - Rarely - Stooping - Rarely - Kneeling - Rarely - Crouching - Rarely - Crawling - Rarely - Reaching - Rarely - Handling - Occasionally - Grasping - Occasionally - Feeling - Rarely - Talking - Constantly - Hearing - Constantly - Repetitive Motions - Frequently - Eye/Hand/Foot Coordination - Frequently